Quotes About Restraint

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

We shan't ever be free again

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

Everyone wanted Maggie." He smiled. "But some of us were smart enough to know you can break a wild horse, but you can never trust it.

Yaddeechachasi Vasheekartu Jagadeken Karmana. Paraapavaadashaastreebhyo Gaam Charanteem Nivaarya. If you want to overpower the entire world merely by just one action, then put restraint upon your tongue speaking ill of others.

If you want to overpower the entire world merely by just one action, then put restraint upon your tongue speaking ill of others.

Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, said, "Know yourself. Know what is good. Know when to stop.

Avirati: This is the tremendous craving for sensory objects after they have been consciously abandoned, which is so hard to restrain. Without being attached to the objects of sense, the yogi learns to enjoy them with the aid of the senses which are completely under his control. By the practice of pratyahara he wins freedom from attachment and emancipation from desire and becomes content and tranquil.

When I was six or seven, I would feel I was inside a box of earth and sky, and I would weep. Once I asked my mother: "Take me out of this box of earth and sky." She said, "I can't." Then I said, "I'm going."

Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence.

Now, to speak of public envy. There is yet some good in public envy, whereas in private, there is none. For public envy, is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men, when they grow too great. And therefore it is a bridle also to great ones, to keep them within bounds.

A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

I don't gossip about myself.

My grandfather died under house arrest.

My philosophy is, if I couldn't say it in front of my grandmother, I probably shouldn't say it.